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There's always a source for humor.

Calvin Trillin

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
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Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
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Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
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I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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Everything was blamed on Castro. Mudslides in California. The fact that you can't buy a decent tomato anymore. Was there an exceptionally high pollen count in Massapequa, Long Island, one day? It was Castro, exporting sneezes.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
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Law professors were never like economics professors, a Harvard Law professor told me. If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool.
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A new regulation for the publishing industry: The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
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Why in the world are you a Republican?
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If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
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Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
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Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions.
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Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
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There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.
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